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Chrysler Cuts Jobs By 20%, Slows Factories in US

DETROIT-Plants outside the United States will close permanently; others here and in Canada will reduce the number of shifts. They include Toledo, OH; Belvidere, IL and Windsor, Ontario. The closings are in Mexico and South America.

By Robert Carr | Updated on January 30, 2001

DETROIT-The Chrysler Group, a subsidiary of Daimler-Chrysler, announced it isslashing its workforce by 26,000 people, shutting two plants and slowingdown others. Although operations at five plants in the United States and three in Canada are being cut back, the three plant closings over the next two years are in Mexico and South America.

The transmission plant in Toluca, Mexico and assembly plant in Cordoba, Argentina will close this year. In 2002, the engine plant in Toluca will close. Meanwhile, the Campo Largo assembly plant in Parana, Brazil will discontinue production while the company evaluates whether to continue production in the future.

Locally, the Jefferson North plant here will eliminate one shift, as will the Pillette Road plant in Windsor, Ontario. Shifts also will be eliminated in Belvidere, IL, the Toledo, OH assembly plant and Bramalea, Ontario. Meanwhile, the Newark, DE assembly plant will reduce line speed, as will the Windsor assembly plant.

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